Motivational Quotes

Passion

Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

- Helvetius, Claude A.

Best Quotes about Passion

In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

Bernanos, Georges

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Bette Davis

Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.

Wooden, John

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

Margery Allingham

I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.

Oprah Winfrey

I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes.

Slaney, Mary Decker

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.

Salma Hayek

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Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.

Bhagavad Gita

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Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.

Miedzian, Myriam

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I don't think I can play any other way but all out. I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

Brett, George

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None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

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If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, Why am I doing this? It comes down to passion.

St. James, Lyn

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The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater ;burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.

Stainback, Arthur H.

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It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do.

Lee, Spike

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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

Seneca

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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other.

Stowell, Joseph

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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Georg Wilhelm

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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

Sade, Marquis De

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Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Brown, Rita Mae

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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

Herzen, Alexander

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As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.

Stowell, Joseph

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Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive'nows.'

Sue Halpern

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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Casals, Pablo

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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Eckhart, Meister

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Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

Paul, Jean

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Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.

Campbell, Joseph

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He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

Eliot, George

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Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

Adams, Thomas

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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Denis Diderot

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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Hoffer, Eric

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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

Diderot, Denis

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Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Voltaire

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The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another

Merton, Thomas

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We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Hegel, Georg

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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Stanley Kunitz

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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Sade, Marquis De

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The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them.

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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

Berger, John

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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

D. H. Lawrence